Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:47:16 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 00:23:49, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 22, 2000 at 23:13:42, Aaron Tay wrote: > >>On March 22, 2000 at 16:46:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >> >>>On March 22, 2000 at 09:26:36, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >> >>>>Now I am better protected that a heavy tank. But, just >>>>yesterday, this guy showed to me another nuisance, that is, how spyware >>material is spreaded in our computers by so many freeware programs, some of >>them very popular and good in his area. >> >>>>You will not be dissappointed, although prepare yourselves to lose some of >>that freeware troyan horses that simply does not run if you does not let them >>to put his eggs. >> >> >>Are you implying in any way that some of the free/shareware chess programs are >>trojan horses? >> >>Hmm..Popular and good sharware , (Crafty?,Goliath?) >> >>So were any chess programs found to be trojan horses? > >Just to make things clear, you were not replying to what I posted. > >-Tom Sorry to jump in, but to me, this whole thing smells a bit sour. I'm not a windows user, so I'm not an expert on anything in that world, but the entire idea ssems very far-fetched to me... However, we have a huge NT open lab here, with students downloading every kind of thing imaginable. And since I am responsible for our new firewall, I can say (for this one installation with over 100 NT machines) that we are _not_ seeing any odd traffic from the NT boxes to the outside world. That typically is _not_ the way various ecommerce sites get data on potential customers. They more commonly crawl thru newsgroups and email lists, and extract email addresses from those... Trying to infiltrate a computer with a trojan horse would open them to so much litigation, I can't imagine this happening on any kind of large scale...
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